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Ruth: Manny Okafor wired half this county.

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I asked him what we’d actually be building. He got that look.

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Manny: A gigawatt. People hear the number and shrug.

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So here’s the number. 1,500 of us. One site. A year and a half.

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Ironworkers, pipefitters, 60 miles of conduit. I counted.

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A substation the size of a church.

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My local’s got apprentices who’ll make journeyman on this one job.

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And when it’s done? About 50 of us stay. Fifty.

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That’s the truth. And anybody promising you 800 is selling something.

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The rest of us roll on to the next one. That’s construction. Always has been.

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My granddad wired the mill. My dad wired the school.

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Me? I’ll take the cathedral.